Carlton Yang

Carlton Yang is a Senior Software Engineer at Databricks since November 2024, specializing in databases. Prior to this role, Carlton served as a Senior Software Engineer at Google from 2019 to November 2024, focusing on Spanner Serving and Batching Processing, as well as scaling and serving the Spanner globally distributed database. Carlton began at Google as a Software Engineer II, working on Raffia: Indexing for Web Search, and progressed to Software Engineer III. Carlton's early experience includes an internship at Google in 2018, contributing to Plumber: ACL-aware Indexing, and research assistant positions at Colgate University from 2016 to 2017, which involved zebrafish segmentation clock network modeling and heterogeneous system design using C++ and CUDA. Academic qualifications include a Master of Science in Computer Science from the University of Pennsylvania and a Bachelor of Arts in Computer Science and Mathematics from Colgate University.